The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Weekly News Summary.


DIPHTHERIA prevails in Lincoln. George
Hallock lost son and others are ill.
THE steamer "Vermont" will not be
withdrawn from the lake until the second
week in October.
HoS. FREpERIcK BILLINGS Is having gas
mines and fixtures nut into the Woodstock
Methodist church,
NEARLY AZ. 900 have been raised at Bellows
Falls i'm the past few davs to furnish books
for the public library.
n NJ D,,pv ~ prr,i,oto, tbo oldost
telegranher in the state. has retired. after
twenty wears of service.
Tur saoord ANNA, rourior ~ tbe sovor.
teentb Vermont Volnnteers will he held in
Burlington October 9Th.
ponp,N factory at Townsbend. owned
H., p nUnn,n iao,o{ az ,,,os h,rnai Sat',r
5sv Ioss a 500. mnipsnred
Observation-Disclosures, hos NADIA ;ts arnoar
onca an'on, nattie on two farms in 0r,yeil
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,,otah e.. h,;Id ne,y enots ot Past Eaireeid
tso;uGoIJ ~, iI;,,hr,ato o,d S%aidon
,oi'' i1a'V ii'H 's'''0 ',i' ,'io'",
a DuMMERsToN farmer pl0ws IN TWO
s ,mre9 fr u, az ro 'oS
"u' pay i0i 'isSi"H ". 'oOo''". u ioU'
THERE was some eXcltement IN Swanton
SATURDAY over tme arrest Tor pigany OF Johh
"inei' VIM 10 "'ioSou W nave io"i Wives
DURING the season beginning June Sth
the steamer REINDEER mas had ABOUT
seVenty-nVe excursions, carrying nearly
5o,ooO passengers.
Two spans of the railroad iron bridge at
Hartford were moved into position Sunday.
About three hundred tons of iron are used
in these two links.
HARRIET g., wife of Ex-Governor Fred
erick Holbrook of Brattleboro, died the DIST,
OF throat disease, after an illness of twenty
four hours, aged seventy years.
MR., j. w. HOBART has so far recovered
his health as to be able to resume his duties
as general manager of the Central Vermont
road, dating from September 18th.
THE Lake Champain Transportation Com
pany have sent petition to the government
to secure the privilege to make a steamboat
wharf at the old Crown Point fort.
JOHN FERREDETTE, employed by the Yer
mont Marble Company at Center Rutland,
was crushed by heavy slab, which fell
upon him. and he will probably die.
AN attempt was made Saturday evening
to wreck the st. Louis express on the Fitch
burg road near Pownal, Vt, by piling nine
ties on the track and spiking two down.
THE town Of Franklin has been sued nv
William l., Smith of Massachusetts to re-.
cover bounty which said town was to
have paid to Smith twenty-six years ago.
JAMES E. Po11ARD's bouse and store al
Chester were entered nv burglars, They
took S15 and a GOLD watch and chain from
the sleeninq.room and about 500 from the
store safe.
COMPLAINT has been entered to the rail
road commissioners against the fare between
Bellows Falls and Brattleboro on the Con.
necticut road. For distance of twenty.
four miles the fare is 81.
THE balloon of Professor knights on the
Playground at Rutland, Thursday struck a
tree and collapsed when thirty feet high,
The professor fell to the ground in his
basket, but was uniniured.
wuI,.N U,pp.pn NJ Parton q student Of
St. Jobnsburv Academy iumned from q
moving train on Friday at that place, strik.
ing against a stone-wall. He was seriously
injured in the stomach and bowels
Two soboo, boys ronod Ta,vou, ord To
nlant Of Montgomery Canter al 70 disnnt.
mo the other dav Tevvaw strnck Ianlant
and the latter drew a knife and stabbed his
assailant in the hin inf;cting had wound
THE one bpndred nosts and A 5oo me,nbers
in the denartment Of Vermont Grand ARM
of tbe Rennhlic. are renresented at the
National Encampment at 81. Iouis this
weel, nv six delegates and tyvo-score of vic.
ting veterans
n,,,
nH ss. oh A, Oh brauioru' VINO
WAS ior several years press reporter az
ex-Governor Farnham died at Minneanolis
last weel, He was thirtv.two and Ieaves !
wife and two chiIdren
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:. mr. iivIle iake III .he o.. Aloalis park
as 10 pe sRanneu ny an IRON orluge, tne glI'
M M 'ue NeiiliUhI Oons.ruc'ton Coulpa,S
me plluse wiz oe twenty leeI III leneihi
! oen OF WE'VE IeeC Wiue, caPaoie OF SUSTAIN
inS 0e" Uoho anu Will cosV apouU @'oo'
The railroad commissioners report in the
case of Thomas Riddingo of Chicago, who was
thrown from bridge on the Central Yer
LIZ; on. nSaI o 3t 1uSusV ON, olSah'ne
~, VIC ioons a."Jos onaU he
mas o.; aoI5 wdineu VI ms uanser ny
mon III Ioiuo anu ooS owing on Viio iiNei'
REV. =. ii. MERRILL OF West Brattleboro
has resigned his pastorate, after fourteen
years OF service, to accept the secretaryship
OF the Vermont Domestic Missionary So
ciety. He will be field secretary after
october lst until next June, when he will
succeed to the full duties now performed by
Rev. G. S. Smith
IT is reported that DIR. w. Seward Webb
sop-in-laW of the late William III Wander
bilt, is having plans drawn for the erection of
a MAGNIFICENT mansion. to cost Al 600 600
upon the estate recently purchased nv him al
Soutb BURLINGTON. He will also build unon
the estate a stable four hundred feet snnare
Nine miles of drives and bridle-paths will
be laid out.
Ex-PRoFEssoR McKENDREE PrTry whose
death was announced on Saturday was
horn in North Dorset VI Jnlv i 1907
He entered tba TTniversitv of Vermont in
1S15 and graduated with biob ranL as ]
scholar in 1S4o In 1874 he was annointaf